Sold 4 Aqara buttons, and an Aqara motion sensor on eBay and replaced them with Sonoff.
You asked what others have done 
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Your mesh is starved for some good quality repeaters; the getChildandRouteinfo Neighbor Table posted show none with a strong connection to the hub. You want to see LQI's approach 255 (they indicate how strong a signal the hub is getting from the repeater) and outCost (a measure of how well the hub's signal is getting to the repeater) in the range of 1 to 3, but nonzero.
Not all the devices need to show good figures here, but if none of them do, you'll have issues.
Recommendations depend on what products you have access to, a search on the forum for 'good Zigbee repeater' should come up with a few.
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thank you I will grab a couple of the sonoff repeaters too
Yeah this ia something that will definitely cause issues. Especially if someone turns them off! I'd recommend either ditching them altogether or putting them on a separate hub. I use a hue hub for this purpose - not sure if those bulbs will work on a hue hub or not. But lightbulbs are notorious disrupters of meshed networks (except for Sengled).
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the only lamps I have as repeaters our 3 Ajax gu10s they our constantly powered, every other light repeater is a sonoff or aeotec relay, our the relay repeaters no good? what does the age incost and outcast mean on the zigbee devices?
Here's a post I made a while back that might help with age :
InCost of a link is basically a mapping of the LQI figure into a range of numbers from 1 to 7, lower numbers indicating better signal reception at the hub; whereas outCost numbers are indicative of reception at the remote end of the link (at the receiver of the repeater), derived from that repeater's measure of its own LQI (which isn't displayed).
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I decided to go with the tuya repeaters I have 2 on there way thinking of buying a third. I got my sonoff contact sensor added without any problem at all. but now I am having trouble with the Automation I play with the expressions saying is has to be closed or not open ect and it messes up everything as is won't even stop in the time set by the rule when using expressions
No, that rule is not expected to work. The required expression will always be false on account of being incorrectly constructed.
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still working on the logic I only want the door to be able to open when the contact is closed to prevent the door from jaming and braking as using liner actuator for door Control and need to prevent all commands to open stoped until its closed as its for a smart hoover. I have days the the logic seems to make sense but then I step into a new bit and nothing makes sense
You need to get rid of the AND in the required expression as there is only one condition.
I guess I am confused about exactly what you want to happen. Those rules make no sense. For example, what is open door in your triggers (a device? a rule?) and how are you determining it is turned for 30 seconds? You must be monitoring something to get that?
Without thinking about rules or automation language, can you lay out in a few simple steps what you want to happen and when?
Example:
- Contact sensor must be closed.
- A button is pressed.
- Wait for 30 seconds.
- Open the door.
Or whatever steps you want to see happen.
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its for automatic door control for my robot hoover so need the door to be be in open mode for only the set number of seconds but also need to only open when the contact sensor is closed
What tells the door to open in the first place? A button? Time of day?
What would happen if the door stayed open too long? You make it sound like that is some critical thing?
Definitely a critical thing as its a swing door controlled by a liner actuator if the door open function is on for too long the liner actuator will over reach jamming the motor and door this could damage the motor and door
the rule is on the open function on the door relay
Ok, got that the timing of the door opening is necessary.
That doesn't make any sense, that seems like circular logic. What tells the relay to work? You must be doing something to make the relay activate.
just push the button for Control on the open door function its a 2 channel dry contact zigbee relay
If you go to the Device menu, and look at the settings page for this device, does the States section in the upper right corner show that you pressed the button on the relay?
